Milos, the best-kept secret in the Cyclades

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The Greek island has the divine beaches that you would expect, but also a quirky, inexpensive mix of attractions

Towards the end of dinner the nice couple from North London told us how to find the lost city. You take a small car ferry to a neighbouring island, pick your way down a perilously narrow jetty and follow a narrow track west, past an elderly woman in a little white house, until you reach a bay. Then it is just a question of wading in with a snorkel. Archaeologists had never excavated this ancient submerged metropolis, but it was there all right, for anyone with a bit of pluck, a hire car and a day to spare.